A prayer, from Poem A Day, Vol. 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Song of the Sky Loom / a Tewa Song, translated by Herbert Joseph Spinders
Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning
Prayer
DPF / Gervitz
For mothers and grandmothers, from Mouth to Mouth, Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women.
from Shajarit / by Gloria Gervitz b. 1943
In the migrations of red carnations, where the songs of the long-billed birds
break and the apples rot, before the disaster
DPF / Ryan
Mothers and daughters and a prayer.
from Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard / by Kay Ryan
The passage
of a life should show;
it should abrade.
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